Recruitment Assistant

Sanctuary Group is one of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and community services. With around 13,000 employees, we maintain a culture where diversity is valued and talent is nurtured and rewarded.

Recruitment Assistant

Worcester based with an anticipated balance of home and office working

£18,900 – £19,895 per year

Temporary position for up to 9 months

35 hours per week – Monday to Friday 9am- 5pm

The Opportunity

Pivotal to the onboarding process at Sanctuary Group, the Recruitment Assistant will ensure all new starters to the Group have compliant documentation prior to their start date. You will have a friendly approach, prior experience in meeting conflicting deadlines and a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

Working within a small supportive team, the Recruitment Assistant will strive to make sure new starter’s information is compliant prior to payroll cut off deadlines and support hiring managers by providing advice on processes and outstanding paperwork. We use a number of systems to manage the New Starter process so you will have experience using Microsoft office systems, particularly Excel.

Skills And Experience

• Organised with a logical approach and good attention to detail
• Some knowledge of UK right to work legislation would be useful, but not essential
• Good customer service skills – you will be regularly liaising with both hiring managers and new starters to the company
• Confident using a variety of systems and software

Why work for us?

One of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and commercial services, Sanctuary Group employs more than 13,000 people and manages over 100,000 units of accommodation throughout England and Scotland, including general rented, retirement living, supported housing, student and key worker accommodation and care homes. Sanctuary also provides a range of other services including maintenance, care and telecare, all of which are delivered by our dedicated employees who are completely committed to customer service.

Our Benefits

As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:

• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays
• A pension scheme with matching employer contributions from Sanctuary up to set limits
• Life Assurance
• Employee Advice Service including counselling
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Voluntary health plans
• Employee discounts
• Wellbeing support and tools
• Employee recognition scheme
• Effective from 1 April 2022 £18,900 per annum (rising to £19,895 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)

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Closing Date: 20 March 2022

We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.

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Building Equality and Diversity

Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers.

We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent unlawful working.

Sanctuary Group is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.